Program management

Program management or programme management is the process of managing several related projects, often with the intention of improving an organization's performance. In practice and in its aims it is often closely related to systems engineering and industrial engineering.

The program manager has oversight of the purpose and status of the projects in a program and can use this oversight to support project-level activity to ensure the program goals are met by providing a decision-making capacity that cannot be achieved at project level or by providing the project manager with a program perspective when required, or as a sounding board for ideas and approaches to solving project issues that have program impacts. In a program there is a need to identify and manage cross-project dependencies and often the project management office (PMO) may not have sufficient insight of the risk, issues, requirements, design or solution to be able to usefully manage these. The program manager may be well placed to provide this insight by actively seeking out such information from the project managers although in large and/or complex projects, a specific role may be required. However this insight arises, the program manager needs this in order to be comfortable that the overall program goals are achievable.

Program (machine)

The sequence of cards used by a Jacquard loom to produce a given pattern within weaved cloth. Invented in 1801, it used holes in punched cards to represent sewing loom arm movements in order to generate decorative patterns automatically.

The execution of a program is a series of actions following the instructions it contains. Each instruction produces effects that alter the state of the machine according to its predefined meaning.

While some machines are called programmable, for example a programmable thermostat or a musical synthesizer, they are in fact just devices which allow their users to select among a fixed set of a variety of options, rather than being controlled by programs written in a language (be it textual, visual or otherwise).

Religion and abortion

Buddhism

There is no single Buddhist view concerning abortion. Some traditional sources, including some Buddhist monastic codes, hold that life begins at conception and that abortion, which would then involve the deliberate destruction of life, should be rejected. Complicating the issue is the Buddhist belief that "life is a continuum with no discernible starting point". Among Buddhists, there is no official or preferred viewpoint regarding abortion.

The Dalai Lama has said that abortion is "negative," but there are exceptions. He said, "I think abortion should be approved or disapproved according to each circumstance."

Inducing or otherwise causing an abortion is regarded as a serious matter in the monastic rules followed by both Theravada and Vajrayana monks; monks and nuns must be expelled for assisting a woman in procuring an abortion. Traditional sources do not recognize a distinction between early- and late-term abortion, but in Sri Lanka and Thailand the "moral stigma" associated with an abortion grows with the development of the fetus. While traditional sources do not seem to be aware of the possibility of abortion as relevant to the health of the mother, modern Buddhist teachers from many traditions– and abortion laws in many Buddhist countries– recognize a threat to the life or physical health of the mother as an acceptable justification for abortion as a practical matter, though it may still be seen as a deed with negative moral or karmic consequences.

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The suit was filed against Joshua Baker, head of Health and Human Services, the agency that oversees the Medicaid program... care services, not just abortions ... Planned Parenthood called McMaster’s order an “unlawful and politically motivated decision,” solely issued because the organization “provides safe, legal abortion outside the Medicaid program.”....

When Ireland voted in its historic referendum in May to overturn its decades-old ban on abortion, it looked as if more change could follow. If Ireland voted to liberalize abortion access, maybe Northern Ireland would be next ... Another vote on abortion did come again three months later, this time to Argentina ... After all, Argentina is the birthplace of PopeFrancis, who likened abortion to the Nazis’ eugenics program....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Argentina's Senate on Thursday rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion, a defeat for a grass-roots movement that came closer than ever to achieving the decriminalization of the procedure in the homeland of PopeFrancis... Pope Francis this year denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families "to accept the children that God gives them."....

Women's groups across Latin America vowed to keep fighting for a right to abortion despite the Argentine Senate's rejection of a bill early Thursday that would have legalized the procedure in PopeFrancis' home country ... Pope Francis this year denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families "to accept the children that God gives them."....

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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's Senate on Thursday rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, an issue that has divided the homeland of PopeFrancis... Pope Francis this year had denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families "to accept the children that God gives them." ... "We're not deciding abortion yes or now....

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina's Senate on Thursday rejected a bill to legalize elective abortion in the first 14 weeks of pregnancy, an issue that has divided the homeland of PopeFrancis... Pope Francis this year had denounced abortion as the "white glove" equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families "to accept the children that God gives them." ... "We're not deciding abortion yes or now....

“Caring for life is the first human right and the duty of the State.” PopeFrancis this year had denounced abortion as the “white glove” equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families “to accept the children that God gives them.” Many women in Argentina use misoprostol to end first-trimester pregnancies....

Pro-life demonstrators against decriminalizing abortion celebrate outside Congress in Buenos Aires, Argentina... In Argentina, abortion is only allowed in cases of rape and risks to a woman’s health ... PopeFrancis this year had denounced abortion as the "white glove” equivalent of the Nazi-era eugenics program and urged families "to accept the children that God gives them.” ... "We’re not deciding abortion yes or now....

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The senate votes this week on a potentially groundbreaking bill to legalise voluntary abortion... Challenging the constitutionality of abortion reforms will be another strategy of their opponents, Alejandra Sardá-Chandiramani, director of programs with the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) told 50.50 ... “There is not a single constitutional principle to justify the right to abortion,” he said....

Aug. 6 —� To the Editor.We have just reached the end of the period for making official comments to the Trump administration re its proposed "gag" rule, which bars any health care provider that receives Title X funds (a program to help low income families with family planning) from mentioning the word abortion or referring any woman or girl to any clinic that provides abortions... ....

For years, Latin America’s tough abortion laws looked unlikely to change ... And so for more than 97% of the 345 million women living in the region, abortion is almost always illegal, as well as unsafe ... In June, PopeFrancis said that abortion in cases of congenital abnormality was the same as “what the Nazis did to purify the race [with eugenics programs]” but with “white gloves.”....